We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

A thinking man never be a party man.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

Freedom always comes with a price.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.

I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...